rhetorical appeals presentation
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USING THE RHETORICAL TRIANGLE TO COMMUNICATE ELECTRONICALLY
Outcomes
At the end of this mini lesson, you will:
-Have a better understanding of the rhetorical situation (look at the image to your left).
-Consider audience, speaker, and context in writing, electronic, and visual communication.
-Understand the 3 rhetorical appeals.
Subject
Speaker
Audience
The Author/Speaker The author or speaker can be
you! What are some of the different ways you author/
write communications? Think about your everyday lives.
Email (personal and professional)
Twitter/Facebook
Academic papers/essays
Blogs
Resume/Job Correspondence
Text messaging
Letters
The author, though, could be anyone creating a
communication
The Audience and Subject
The receiver of the communication.
What you write, how you write it, the words you use, etc. should all depend on who your audience is and what is the purpose or context for which you are writing.
Speaker
Audience Subject
Case Scenario:
Meet our author, Jason-he missed class today
and must email his instructor.
The subject is Jason’s email to his professor.
Here is his email: OMG ur not gonna believe it!!! I’ve been sick & need the homework 4 class. TTYL
Meet our audience, Mr. Smith. He will provide
Jason with the homework, but he wants
Jason to rewrite the email.
Rhetorical Appeals
There are 3 primary persuasion appeals to incorporate into your writing:
Logos = logic
Pathos = sympathy
Ethos = credibility
• Logos means logic and is achieved through facts, data, statistics.
• When you read an article and the author is citing a particular data, fact, graph, etc, that author or speak is appealing to the logic and rationality of the speaker.
Can you think of specific examples of logos from the media ?
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• Pathos means sympathy/empathy. • Pathos is achieved through real-life
stories and events that are emotionally compelling for the audience.
• For example, when a politician is discussing the economy and relates a real-life story of a single, unemployed mother of three struggling to get by, the politician is appealing to pathos.
• Ethos means credibility. • Ethos is an appeal to the credibility of the
speaker. • For example, when you watch a
commercial about a medication and a doctor is endorsing the medication, that can be considered an appeal to ethos.
• Can you think of additional examples?